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Show T WHY MEN LEAVE HOME 18 1 Three wandering wives, Fifi, Nina (Miss Mildred Paver) and Betty (Miss Alison Symmes), who return home suddenly' to find their husbands Tom (Ben Edway), Sam (Noel Leslie) and Artie (Arthur Loft), have not been sitting at home idly twirling their thumbs, cause the complications in "Why Men Leave Home." Miss Fanchon Everhart, Miss DalBy Del Wilcox, Richard Tracy, Franklis Parker, Miss Dorothy Blyden and Miss Helen Burkes have other roles in this play of crimination and recrimination "Why Men Leave Home will be presented every night next week with matinees Sunday, Thursday and .. WILKE8 NEXT BIG SHOW Now that the public has learned HE CITIZEN that Prefer. Blondes' the q'Gentlemen Vllkes' Players are going to show the- atregoers . "Why Men Leave Home' when' they present the play "Why Men Leave Home at the Wilkes theatre next week starting with the matinee Sunday afternoon. This Avery Hopwood success was produced in New York at the Moros-c- o theatre by Wagehnals and Kemper and it became a notable success. While it will not be the object of this article to make a story of the play, however, as everyone knows, 'Qere are a thousand and one reasons for the male of the species absenting himself from his own fireside for periods of various length. Whether these reasons are warranted or not. is an estirely different question according to the renowned Mr. Hopwood. Arman returns to his home all tired out after a hard day's work with anticipation of a good, warm dinner awaiting his arrival, only to discoved an empty table and the fact that friend wife is out somewhere diving gaily g into one of those bridge matinees with seventeen dollars in the hole and lingering on at the game in the hopes of winning it back. Hubby may, overlook the circumstances for the once and may be a couple of times more, but along about the sixth afternoon he is apt to spurt on all six cylinders for some place on the map where there is a dinner and welcome aplenty awaiting his coming. Or perhaps friend wife is one of the wandering kind, who likes to go abroad, like Fifi(Miss Fladys George) for instance, while friend husband stays at home to provide the wherewithal. heart-breakin- DANCING AND HARMONY SINGING BIG FEATURE8 Rarely does a theatre get two sets of different types on the same bill. Yet that is what the Capitol Theatre has been fortunate in getting this week One of the best and most noted dancing sets and one of the best harmony singing teams in the country will be seen in a Fanchon & Marco spec- top-nbtc- h ialty. The singers are two girls, Taylor and Lake, recently from Chicago, where theiy played with Paul Ash and scored a remarkable success. Their harmony is little short of perfect. The other headliner is a remarkable dancing group known as the Dance Demons, and they are that. There are eight of these dance demons, equally divided in sex. These four couples promise to show patrons of the Capitol Theatre steps that will leave them gasping. Their repertoire is complete and ranges from old fashioned dances to modern exceedingly This is the artist's conception of Henry Fink, composer, who Is appearing at the Pantages this week. Fink wrote "The Curse of an Arching Heart, in its day the greatest seller on the market. He has written a number of other r. successes, including "Pal of Mine, "Egypt and "I Want to be Loved by a destined is new a the number is that This week at Pantages he featuring o be a tremendous success, "Weve Got a Brand New Baby. Slo-die- modern steps. These two acts have traveled together throughout the Pacific Coast and have received glowing praise from newspaper critics everywhere. NOW AT THE CAPITOL Strikingly different in appearance, one being a decided brunette, and the other a decided blonde, Taylor and Lake are are very much alike in the possession of exquisite voices. They these two voices . blend perfectly and when they sing it sounds like one chord is being struck. This Fanchon & Marco specialty is one of the most successful ever put upon the stage. On the screen the Capitol presents the filmization of one of Peter B. DELUXE S r S BILLIARD O PARLOR ill ill 146 So. Main St. (Over Pantages) ill 5 3 New Equipment If Courteous Treatment ?! LAMBROSE BROS. . . t r v The Valley of the Giants p Peter' B. Kyne's famous story, featuring Milton Sills, on the stage, a Fanchon and Marco Idea, featuring Dance Demons and Taylor and Lake. Props. |